Lynn's World

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Why do I own Linse.Org?

My surname is Linse.
I obtained the domain linse.org back in the early 1990's before most
people knew one could own your own domain.
I used to offer email forwarding, but now that just gets linse.org in
trouble with the likes of AOL when people mark forwarded email as SPAM.
So I had to quite offering that. I'll consider any
proposals for valid use geared to the surname Linse.

Who am I?

Back in the 1980's I worked with
Computer-Integrated-Manufacturing (CIM)
and the ISO/OSI-based MAP/TOP protocols.
Now, that's something fewer and fewer people remember, but it was an
attempt by several large companies to push an open
standard network communications stack.
It failed - in part - because the result was so "large and costly"
that even the sponsoring companies could not justify using it.
I remember doing work back in a University
of Minnesota
lab with a computer and MAP. Since this was the days of 640K RAM and
Windows 286/386 we needed a special network card.
This created the somewhat ridiculous situation of using a network
card with 10 times the processing power and RAM of the main CPU!

The 1990's found me living in Singapore
and doing industrial project work around South-East Asia, including
Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
I developed a specialty in handling the serial data communications
interface between multiple vendors.
This involved issues of grounding, surge protection, and protocols.
I actually started a small company Robust
Datacomm Pte Ltd which specializes in heavily isolated serial
interface products for industry.
I have to say I really loved Singapore!
It would have been a nice place to spend the rest of my life.
However, cashing in on my unique niche job skills brought me back
to the USA.

The first decade of 2000 has me working on the general notion
of IP-enabling industrial equipment.
Originally this was mainly with use of Ethernet-to-serial devices.
However, today I spend a lot of time working in the wide-area-network
issues of cellular IP-enabling equipment.
This means the use of modern IP-based cell (as in phone) services.

A note

Since this is my site, no one is responsible for its
content but me. Curious what this background image is?
It is a screenshot from the 2006 PC game called Oblivion.
We are walking west into the sunset towards the town of Anvil.